In terms of "hard power" in the game, there is really no one that can compete with today's sixth-level Plague City. Even the seventh-level holy city of the human race, the City of Faith~
However, in terms of soft power
The biggest benefit brought by this new alliance is "funds"! A large amount of funds for alliance activities! Even so much that it made other allies restless for a while.
After all, these other old allies are all "made from scratch". There are some who have a certain financial background and are willing to invest large sums of money in the game. However, they are at the level of the Dark Lord. They also have to consider the balance of payments and the recovery of funds for subsequent development.
question.
There are many rich people in this world, but there are still not many who can close their eyes and throw eighteen million into the water. Therefore, although Plague City is developing rapidly, its expenses are not too large, even because
After Liu Yifei helped everyone get through the initial bottleneck quickly, they can now earn some income. This profitable territory is still very enviable nowadays when player lords are everywhere!
But the money earned belongs to each lord himself. They can choose to invest it in the development plan of the territory, but they will not give it to Liu Yifei for no reason~
It is true that Liu Yifei and Plague City helped everyone, but there was a cooperation agreement at the beginning, and everyone paid on the spot. It was an employment relationship, and there was no reason to add additional funds later.
However, these three new allies are not ordinary. Taken together, they have invested 60 million in "alliance arms funds" for the entire alliance!
Sixty million!!!
These are joint coins, not game gold coins!!!
At a glance, three owners suddenly jumped out who were so wealthy that they did not use money as money. Their development almost relied heavily on the other six old allies of Plague City. Naturally, they were a little worried that their allies' seats would not be guaranteed~
After all, if we compare our hearts, each family is obviously willing to see that they have such a powerful ally with a solid pocket.
The same alliance relationship. I am promoted by others, and my contribution to the alliance is limited. Although the "alliance leader" wants to set up a group army and so on, and he is very cooperative in dispatching troops and generals, but in the end this is not the same as others actually giving two
There is still a fundamental difference when tens of millions of "share capital" are poured into the alliance~
Twenty million United coins
There are so many lords in the Plague Alliance who can't even make up this amount, let alone having to spend such a large amount of money to "give" it to the alliance?
In this world, a rich person is not necessarily strong; but for a truly strong person, money is one of the necessary conditions!
For example, people like Liu Yifei who started from scratch and worked their way up, there are really too few of them~ They are heroes who were born by chance.
Let alone others, even if Liu Yifei is asked to go back and do it again now, he may not be able to guarantee that he can still be as successful as he is today~
For him, Plague City and the entire Plague Alliance to reach today's heights can be said to be a unique exception.
And if we look at other well-known player organizations or lord players in the world, they are almost all the results of crazy money spending.
How many young men without money are willing to hang out with this miserable boss?
How much money can be used to raise more and stronger mercenaries without money?
If you don’t have money, then you have fucking subordinates. If you want to arm others, why don’t you spend money?
You can't just say that if someone recognizes you and follows you, you still want them to buy supplies and equipment out of their own pockets, right?
This kind of thing does not belong to an "organization", it is called a "relatives and friends group"~
Moreover, even if it is a group of relatives and friends, there will be some public funds to support group activities.
Therefore, whether you have money or not, and how much money you have can be used as an important auxiliary factor in the game world to measure whether a boss is successful or powerful.
It does not account for the main reason, but it must not be ignored!
Three new allies. One family spends 20 million joint coins, and the total is 60 million!
With such a large amount of money, it is not impossible to build another super alliance~
Of course, it is not unconditional to use it to buy shares in the Plague Alliance.
The purpose of this 60 million advance investment has already been explained, "Alliance Arms Funds". It is used to prepare for the alliance's later foreign wars.
Invincible Heroes OL is a genuine "war strategy online game".
This attribute was questioned by many people during the first half year of the game's public beta.
After all, apart from the strategic map, this game looks like a single-player RPG mode, although it contains a lot of seemingly superfluous and weird settings.
However, now it seems that things are naturally different~
As the number of lord players continues to increase, the connotations of territory management and territory composition have been dug out by players one after another. The various fragmented settings in the world are finally connected together!
Looking at the large-scale ethnic battles that have broken out in various places, the theme of war has already emerged before our eyes. It is so clear that people can even smell the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke!
Now that the game itself has developed to a certain level, the average strength of the player class will also usher in a relatively gentle and calm development period after entering the third level period.
Then the shift of attention becomes inevitable!
In the early stage, everyone rushed for levels, then for equipment, then for various mercenary groups, guilds, etc., and even for territories. But what if everything reaches a development bottleneck?
The level can only be improved slowly, and the equipment is temporarily difficult to update. The mercenary group, guild and even the territory are relatively stable. What happens after everyone has found their own organization?
That is the arrival of the "era of large-scale player conflict"!
Especially now that there is even a personal pet system, which makes the player's individual combat ability stronger!
If you have the strength and don't show off for a while, it must be unreasonable and unreasonable~
If there is any trivial matter between players, especially between organizations, it is now extremely common in games to rush in and beat up a hundred or eighty good guys!
Large-scale wars around the world bring not only turmoil to the overall structure, but also impatience in people's hearts!
If the general environment is harmonious and peaceful, then everyone will subconsciously be unwilling to take action easily. However, if there are fighting and killing outside all day long, and a mighty army of tens of thousands of people sweeps back and forth, will the players still be able to live in peace?
?
He almost didn’t run around with his weapons behind the army all day long~
Someone jumps out to look for trouble?
Damn, just chop him!
And as this "war" mood continues to ferment for a while. Especially when the foundation of the player's territory becomes more solid, the "era of war" in which territories and organizations merge with each other will surely come!
And this time, this "war preparation fund" of up to 60 million is prepared for this matter~
In this war between Solna and the elves, Liu Yifei was lucky enough to grab an important position and master a "golden thread"! Not only did he not spend money to participate in the war, but he could also poach a large amount of benefits from consumers.
!
However, such a good thing will never happen every time, and it is even unlikely to happen next time~
And if it is a battle with player organizations, NPC forces will not even bother you~
Even though Liu Yifei is doing well in the Kingdom of Solna now, if a player similar to him comes to compete with him one day, everyone including Toradre will definitely stand by and watch~
Survival of the fittest is the only rule in this world. Toradere must also be willing to see the birth of a more powerful and effective assistant! Basically, as long as there are no "outsiders" to mess with it, Liu Yifei can only spend his old age. Ben fucks the enemy~
Since you are spending your own capital, income and expenditure are a critical issue.
If you are lucky, you can earn some money back. If you are unlucky, the cost of fighting is not small. Even the 60 million is not guaranteed to be used several times.
But no matter what, with this 60 million as a base, the Plague Alliance has the confidence to spend huge sums of money!
As for the conditions for spending this money?
Very simple~
The first thing to do is to help the three new allies upgrade their territory to level three within half a month!
Or it may be delayed due to an accident, but you must at least be prepared to attack the third-level territory~and you must reach the third-level territory within three weeks at the latest!
Again~
This money is for the entire alliance, not for Liu Yifei’s Plague City family. Therefore, everyone must jointly supervise and manage it. If you want to use it, how much you want to use not only requires a detailed application, but also must go through a meeting within the alliance. Voting. In the voting system, Liu Yifei, as the strongest alliance leader, has the right to double votes, and the other lords have one vote per person.
Finally, the third article is that the alliance must hire a "war consultant" to improve the alliance's war command capabilities!
In fact, if we really want to fight a large-scale legion war, the problem of player commanders is a big problem that needs to be solved first!
It's just that the command system in this game is relatively complete, and the NPC generals are very intelligent. After the introduction of the "Lord Knowledge" system, some rare heroes will have commanding talents, allowing them to command battle formations. Explosive increase in ability~
As a result, the existence value of player commanders is somewhat weakened.
But this is only temporary.
As the territory continues to expand and the army continues to increase, NPC commanders must have their own shortcomings, that is, "their vision is too small."
It might be easier to lead an army and a city~
But if, like the large-scale cross-border battle faced by Solna this time, the war area involved is too wide, unless they are super strong men of the legendary class, how can ordinary NPC heroes take care of it?
But players are different~
There are many ways for players to exchange information: secret chats, emails, phone calls, etc.~
It can be said that as long as more manpower is sent to monitor the entire war zone, the player commander can master all intelligence information without leaving home. At the same time, he can command the army's actions at a higher level and complete amazing tactical coordination!
For example, in this trip to the underground world, Liu Yifei was distracted and took care of two battle situations at the same time, which reflects the importance of the player commander!
In the past, this question was not very necessary, and Liu Yifei, Xue Lan, and Yu Huangquan all had good battle formation command skills, so they just muddle along and ignore it.
But with the outbreak of a new round of large-scale battles and the beginning of the threatening video of the establishment of the "Anti-Cloud Group" issued by Emperor Aojian, the future war pattern will be much larger than before. A professional knowledge and even the actual war
Experienced senior commanders are necessary~
Xuelan has already met and approved this matter. The current intention of everyone in the alliance is to entrust a third-party intermediary to recruit a professional "battle commander" from the European and American markets.
There are also such people in the domestic professional circle, but the problem is that such people are rarely from individual players, and more of them are from large team organizations. For example, Aojian Villa cultivated them internally. And the one Liu Yifei met before
Want to pursue the "Pearl of the Dragon Queen"
The players of [Lei Hanxin]'s Proud Sword Villa called "Jingtao Sword" are also the second-generation battle commanders they are training. It is said that the number one battle commander in Proud Sword Villa so far is even
The strength is strong enough to dominate a large battle involving tens of thousands of people!
The reason why Proud Sword Villa has been invincible in many games in the past, and has rarely encountered opponents, is that in addition to their great reputation, the large number of players gathered, and their willingness to invest in stronger equipment, this first battle commander is absolutely indispensable even in the game.
Xuelan is more valuable than the Aojian Emperor who is presented as the leader!
Having such a person in the army is more powerful than having thousands of troops out of thin air!
The army meets a good general. The power of the two of them combined is absolutely impressive.
Later, when Xue Lan said this, Liu Yifei also discovered the blind spots that he had been negligent in this aspect or did not understand.
Although Liu Yifei is as strong as a monster and can be considered an all-rounder when it comes to singles, group fights, and battles, the so-called all-rounder simply means that he knows a little bit about everything but is not proficient in anything!
Compared with real professionals, the difference is absolutely obvious~
For example, let’s take Liu Yifei’s strongest “one-on-one” performance~
It is definitely as powerful as a ghost or a god in the game, but it has a lot to do with Liu Yifei's opportunities and the setting of the game. Once out of this game, this set of game rules, for example, if it were changed to a fair environment, it would be held in Beijing before.
It was obvious in the meet and greet fighting event that Liu Yifei was far behind, let alone compared with top PK talents like Little Assassin. Even compared with veteran professional players such as Star Steel Blade, Liu Yifei could hardly reach the semi-finals.
It’s already the boss’ honor~
However, when it comes to commanding the military formation, Liu Yifei is indeed gradually becoming more and more powerful and feels exhausted.
It is true that the scale of the war is expanding too fast. With his little knowledge and experience, it is very tiring to deal with it~
If you can invite a professional to come over, if nothing else, at least the pressure on your shoulders will be much less. If multiple talented people can make suggestions together, it will also make future battles smoother~
This idea is undoubtedly a better idea. Not only does the alliance need to hire an "alliance commander", Liu Yifei even has the idea of hiring a professional war talent for his own family!
Things just happened to come to a head~
At the last auction, there was an "old man" with extraordinary temperament who also hoped to join the Plague Alliance.
However, because the situation was urgent at the time, I didn't ask in detail. It wasn't until the alliance held an internal meeting to discuss that I discovered that this old man was not a big entrepreneur or a big man who came to play in the game.
They simply come here to find a “job” for themselves!
This old man is known as "Jia Zhengjing". When he was young, he would be the chief of staff of a certain military region in China. He also swore that he had participated in the Third World War and had performed well in the domestic XX and XX battles, as well as the foreign XX battles.
Excellent, now a veteran who is idle at home
When Xue Lan, Ta Dun and others heard this, they couldn't help but frown and gnash their teeth.
It's not that I was intimidated by the old man.
Judging from his age, there is no doubt that the old man has experienced World War III at some time.
After all, it only lasted a few decades, so the timing was right.
But what makes people suspicious is his resume and his name!
The domestic battles that the old man mentioned were all quite famous battles, and they were important turning battles that everyone memorized in their textbooks when they were in school!
If you don't even know these things, it can basically be concluded that this young man has failed the modern history and has to be pulled back and remade~
However, we all know these "important historical events", and when an old man suddenly appears and says that he has participated in these battles, people can't help but sigh.
An old military strategist who has participated in so many battles and is still alive and kicking and still has the energy to play games today.
How rare a treasure this must be?
And compared with the old man's terrifying resume, his name sounds more like a lie~
Jia Zhengjing Jia Zhengjing is serious???
Whose parent would be so foolish as to name their child such a name?
If the atmosphere hadn't been quite serious at that time and the old man was quite old, the younger ones like Steel Blade of the Star would have burst into laughter.
If what the old man said is true, it would not be difficult to recommend such a powerful person to the alliance to become an alliance military commander~
After all, he is from a real-life fighting force. As long as he is familiar with the game environment and understands the various characteristics that suit the game situation, it will be just like playing~
But after the meeting in the alliance, it seems that they are more inclined to invite a famous person from the Western professional circle to come over for guidance. Moreover, although the old man is originally a soldier, he has never actually fought in the game. Can he get used to it?
It really made people feel unsure about his qualifications, so he was ultimately rejected by the alliance.
However, Xue Lan took this matter seriously and talked to the old man several times.
This time Liu Yifei came back and decided on this matter without saying a word!
The alliance matter will be put to a referendum, but the matter in his own Plague City depends on Liu Yifei's mood?
This old man, Liu Yifei decided to try it out for a month! In the following time, while Xuelan accompanies him to familiarize himself with the characteristics of the game itself, he will gradually hand over the "Free Corps" south of Solna to him.
No matter what, the old man must give Liu Yifei a satisfactory result within this month, and the Freedom Corps must produce "results that can suppress the situation"!
If he fails to try out the "Chief Military Commander of Plague City", he will naturally lose his place~
But if you pass the examination
The old man seemed to love money, so he asked for a monthly salary of 10,000 United Dollars for himself. This was a basic salary without any bargaining.
If there is a large-scale military operation that month [the standard is that the scale of one's own operation reaches or exceeds three fully-equipped armies, that is, 10,000 people. Or several major military forces in the Plague Alliance are dispatched], then he will be given anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000.
bonus.
The old man was quite arrogant in this matter. He asked Liu Yifei to decide how much of the bonus he would give. Anyway, he was an old man in his sixties. Liu Yifei had the nerve to watch a grandfather in his sixties working hard for him. He couldn't eat well or sleep well.
If you can feel at ease without sleeping, it doesn't matter even if you don't give a bonus~
What the old man said made Liu Yifei really dumbfounded, so he had to quickly agree to give it~ and only a lot more
Again!
If a major victory is achieved under the command of the old man, he will not care about the spoils, "real estate" such as territory. But including materials, equipment, military power, and money, he will have 10%!
The coins are mainly game money and war compensation paid when the opponent surrenders. This is easy to calculate~
As for other supplies, the old man will give priority to selling them to Liu Yifei at a 20% discount. If Liu Yifei doesn't want them, he will also use his connections to find someone to resell them.
After actual contact, Liu Yifei discovered several obvious characteristics of this old man: serious, quick-talking, straightforward, generous, loving money and getting it wisely~
How to say
Judging from the results of Xue Lan's discussion with Liu Yifei afterwards, the old man is indeed still unfamiliar with the "online game war". This can be seen from the price he quoted for himself as a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan~
Generally speaking, in the professional circle, anyone who can call themselves a "battle commander" is a precious talent that various medium and large organizations focus on attracting!
Even for apprentices, the monthly salary is around 3,000. Those who graduate can have a monthly salary of 5,000 to 8,000. Those who are a little famous can get tens of thousands. If they are very famous, such as Aojian Villa.
Not only does the "chief" have a basic salary of no less than 500,000 to 600,000 yuan a year, but the key is that he also holds shares in the guild and studio. Even if he retires in the future, he can easily sell his shares for tens of thousands.
Millions~
If the resume and war experience that the old man boasted about himself are true, and he is a truly capable person, then the old man's salary can be said to be pitifully low!
Liu Yifei and the others are totally suspected of being unscrupulous owners who exploit their hard-earned labor! Especially this “sweat-laborer” is a white-haired grandfather in his sixties~
But the "post-war benefits" that the old man mentioned at the end are also very interesting.
This undoubtedly buries a value-added space for your actual income!
As a lord, you have to consider expenditures and investment ratios when fighting a war. But when it comes to him, this problem is much simpler~ Just think about winning! And win beautifully~
What does "win beautifully" mean?
That is to defeat the enemy with as little consumption as possible within the range of combat power Liu Yifei gives him. And he has to grab more and occupy more. After all, this thing is directly linked to his income! If the fight is too miserable, both sides will completely
It was done through hard work. Then the other party probably didn’t have anything left for him to grab, so it allowed him to increase his income, right?
From this point of view, it seems that the old man is very confident in his own strength.
But no matter what you say~
Liu Yifei likes this old man very much!
After all, his method of increasing income is a share-sharing system. The more he earns, the more Liu Yifei can earn!
What's there to hesitate about? It's good for him and good for me. Liu Yifei fully accepted the old man's request at that time.
The first official battle commander~
Liu Yifei feels happy and excited every time he thinks about this!
When it comes to money, he holds more than 300 million in liquidity. As an ordinary person, Liu Yifei feels that he has nothing else to ask for~
After all, you want to talk about luxury goods. Liu Yifei doesn't pursue these, and he doesn't like to spend his money on women. 300 million joint coins will really earn him all the money in his next life~ He just puts it in the bank to earn interest.
The amount is enough for him to live comfortably~
Therefore, what Liu Yifei is pursuing now is no longer wealth, but a kind of success! A kind of "career" success in the true sense!
Both Plague City and Plague Alliance have reached a new level~
The road before this was carried, lifted, and dragged by him all the way, and he was not prepared to just walk on the road behind~
In this world, he has determined to carve out a kingdom and imprint his name on the history of this smoke-filled magical world!
If such an achievement can really be achieved, even if it is just a game, it can be regarded as the pinnacle of Liu Yifei's life!
In order to achieve this goal, Liu Yifei wholeheartedly welcomes all people with real abilities to serve him~
The joining of this veteran military strategist named Jia Zhengjing officially marks that Plague City has reached a new level. It is moving towards a more formal and stronger road.
In addition to these big things on the surface, Liu Yifei also dealt with a lot of "little things" when he came back, such as the transfer of internal personnel. Such as the expansion and redeployment of the player corps, such as the subsequent detailed adjustments to the mercenary corps and everything.
It is extremely difficult for outsiders to know about some of the city's confidential consultations. On the surface, there are almost no clues, so naturally they are all "little things"~
But in addition to the players, Liu Yifei also made an important decision about NPCs after he came back!
That is to start "investing" in the Forstel Basin northwest of Solna!
The Fostel Basin is located between the three ghost kingdoms of Solna, Ptolemy and Garswood in the north. It has a vast territory and is rich in black iron ore. It has always been an area of chaos controlled by the Three Kingdoms. Generally speaking,
Everyone wants to reach out, but no one can completely swallow this place under the gaze of others.
Liu Yifei had previously asked the "New Dark City" given to him by the Dark Lord to drive there.
Everything was as Liu Yifei expected at the time. After a large number of bandits were eliminated in the previous "Battle of Dark City", the chaotic separatist forces here were greatly eliminated. It was a good time to take advantage of the opportunity~
However, things also went beyond Liu Yifei’s expectations~
That is, the matter has been reflected in the hands of two "neighbors" in less than a month, so now the Fostel Basin has once again seen a chaotic and separatist phenomenon!
It just changed from the original NPC division to the player division.
The kings of Ptolemy and Garswood didn't know what they were thinking. They actually allowed players to go to these deep mountains and wild forests to establish private territories. The kingdom would provide protection and support in the early stage at the cost of the black mined in each territory.
50% of the iron ore must be handed over! And all the iron ore accidentally obtained must be handed over in full~
This price tag is quite large, which almost compresses the player's profit space to the extreme.
But there is a regulation about "regular troops providing early support and protection". Many people have broken the qualifications to go abroad and develop!!!
What is the so-called "early stage"? It means the first and second level territories are included in it!
The system not only provides assistance and protection to upgrade the first-level territory, but also dispatches a brigade of [100] regular troops to assist when the second-level territory is upgraded to the third level!
This means that the player can recruit up to 100 players to participate in the war, plus 100 kingdom regular troops. He can also bring 300 territory-produced mercenaries or hero units.
However, all this is actually superfluous~
Because Nima effectively broke the news that the regular army support provided by Ptolemy and Garswood were still fifth-level Great Corpse Witch troops!
One hundred great corpse witches!
That is completely a fifth-level mid-level unit!
Pulling out such a large team is a disaster for the test mission of upgrading the third-level territory! The mission is all in vain, and it is basically to the extent that you can pass it with your eyes closed.
After Ptolemy and Garswood joined forces, Solna also reacted and began to send people to join in the competition to plunder the resources of the Fostel Basin.
The situation will be completely messed up~
It also had a great impact on Liu Yifei’s originally planned development plan~
Fortunately, Liu Yifei and the Duke of Darkness were quick enough to seize the best surrounding areas, and also occupied all the nearby resource points along the way. Otherwise, if they had followed them in, the fear here was that right now
The fight becomes even more chaotic~
Even if the New Dark City is upgraded to a third-level city at the earliest, it currently does not have a strong say in the Fostel Basin, and it does not even dare to move too far away from the stronghold, otherwise some sneak attacks will occur if it is not protected~
In order to support New Dark City to stand firm in that chaotic power, the Plague Alliance had to provide a large amount of manpower and material support to New Dark City. To this day, not only has there been no obvious benefit, but it has also suffered a small loss.
If this situation develops for a long time, it will be a bad thing for New Dark City and even the entire Plague Alliance, so Liu Yifei must find a way to establish New Dark City's right to speak in the Fostel Basin as soon as possible!
At this time, Liu Yifei happened to return to the Plague City with a large number of "non-staff combat forces". He simply passed it to the Spider Girl clan~
Although the Centipede Spider Queen agreed to be under Liu Yifei's command and receive his protection, she was originally an independent and free leader of a large clan, so she would inevitably have some thoughts in her mind if she wanted to live under someone else's wing. Over time, Liu Yifei was also afraid that there would be estrangement and conflicts between the two parties.
Therefore, Liu Yifei does not intend to let the Spider Girl tribe be too deeply integrated into the Plague City before he has completely clarified his thoughts on how to deal with the Spider Girl Tribe~
And the Fostel Great Basin is undoubtedly a very suitable space for them to settle and develop secretly~
In order to develop the black iron ore in the Fostel Basin, the former bandits have dug a large number of pits and mines there, and even built many underground mines.
As long as they are cleaned up a little, these places can become good places for the spider women to live~
And if manpower and material resources can be expended to open up the passages between the various mines, judging from the ultra-high movement speed of the demon-hunting spiders in the complex underground environment, this will become the unparalleled home ground for the recuperating spider women!
When the time comes, the New Dark Insects will control the forces on the surface, while the Spider Woman clan will carefully operate underground. This chaotic land will finally be under Liu Yifei's control one day!
On the other side, the evil beetles controlled by Misha are even more useful~
The first thing that cannot be avoided is the tiring work of exploring the path~
Nowadays, there are so many areas to deploy and control in Plague City that Liu Yifei feels like he is overwhelmed!
In particular, there is a huge and endless Sighing Mountain Range behind it that needs to be developed~
For the time being, Liu Yifei is short of manpower, and it is impossible for players to blast into the mountains on a large scale to help him find a way. Therefore, the huge and numerous evil beetle clan has undoubtedly become Liu Yifei's best choice at the moment.
